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Elista Airport

ICAO URWI46.3739°N 44.3309°E153 m / 501 ftMedium airport
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Elista airport
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Elista Airport (IATA: ESL, ICAO: URWI) is a medium airport in Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,200 m (10,499 ft). In 2017 it handled 11 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
09/27098° / 278° · LIT
LENGTH3,200 m10,499 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09L/27R098° / 278°
LENGTH2,303 m7,555 ftWIDTH85 m280 ftSURFACEGrass

Passengers per year

2016–2017
12K
11K
1617

Routes

4 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsRed Wings Airlines 3Aeroflot 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ESL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Elista Airport” (revision of 11 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers11K (2017)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,651of 3,974 · #544 Europe · #148 RULongest runway3,200 m10,499 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=819of 29,823 · =110 Europe · =49 RUElevation153 m501 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,986of 43,341 · #2,720 Europe · #287 RURunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =134 Europe · =5 RU
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels
APPAPP124.200
TWRTWR118.300